The evolution of cooperation based on direct fitness benefits
A theme issue compiled and edited by Michael Taborsky, Joachim G Frommen and Christina Riehl
Published online 04 January 2016
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Contents
Explanations of cooperation that are based on
indirect fitness, which have dominated the theoretical
and empirical literature for the past half century,
cannot account for many examples of apparently
altruistic behaviour observed in nature.
Preface: The evolution of cooperation based on direct fitness
benefits Michael Taborsky, Joachim Frommen and Christina
Riehl
This theme issue brings together leading
evolutionary theoreticians and empiricists to discuss
complementary evolutionary mechanisms that can
explain the frequent occurrence of cooperation
among non-kin. With well-studied model systems
from a wide range of taxa extending from insects to
humans, and with theoretical treatments of the
evolutionary stability of cooperation among unrelated
individuals, we review the current understanding of
cooperation that cannot be explained primarily by kin
selection.
There is no fitness but fitness, and the lineage is its bearer Erol
Akçay and Jeremy Van Cleve
Negotiation and appeasement can be more effective drivers of
sociality than kin selection Andrés E Quiñones, G Sander van
Doorn, Ido Pen, Franz J Weissing, Michael Taborsky
Cooperation and the common good Rufus A Johnstone and
António MM Rodrigues
A simple rule for the evolution of contingent cooperation in large
groups Roberto H Schonmann and Robert Boyd
Individual variation behind the evolution of cooperation Zoltán
Barta
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Models of social evolution: can we do better to predict ‘who helps
whom to achieve what’? António MM Rodrigues and Hanna
Kokko
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Correlated pay-offs are key to cooperation Michael Taborsky,
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Non-kin cooperation in bats Gerald S Wilkinson, Gerald G Carter,
Kirsten M Bohn and Danielle M Adams
Cooperation between non-relatives in a primitively eusocial paper
wasp, Polistes dominula Jeremy Field and Ellouise Leadbeater
Evolution of social behaviour in the primitively eusocial wasp
Ropalidia marginata: do we need to look beyond kin selection?
Raghavendra Gadagkar
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Why mutual helping in most natural systems is neither conflictfree nor based on maximal conflict Redouan Bshary, Klaus
Zuberbühler and Carel van Schaik
Cheating and punishment in cooperative animal societies
Christina Riehl and Megan E Frederickson
Biological trade and markets Peter Hammerstein and Ronald Noë
Adaptations for social cognition in the primate brain Michael L
Platt, Robert M Seyfarth and Dorothy L Cheney
The evolution of altruistic social preferences in human groups
Joan B Silk and Bailey R House
Reputation, a universal currency for human social interactions
Manfred Milinski
Front image: Lake Tanganyika cichlids serve as a paradigm for
reciprocal cooperation. Image provided by Michael Taborsky.
How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to
large-scale human societies Simon T Powers, Carel P van Schaik
and Laurent Lehmann